County Council - Special Meeting

Wednesday, September 16, 2026Official site

The Lancaster County Council held a special meeting to finalize the Planning Commission's recommendations for the rewrite of the Unified Development Ordinance.

About this meeting

Government Body
County Council
Meeting Type
County Council
Location
Lancaster County, SC
Meeting Date
September 16, 2026

Published excerpts

Only published remarks appear here. The full transcript is not published.

15 sections

8:16 – 8:31•Steve Harper

Do we need to, when the motion is made, will we need to reference each individual item Like if we agree with number eight, this is fine.

32:02•Stuart Graham

Yeah, it's not a rezoning. It's not a rezoning. It's already zoned appropriately. They were just bringing in.

32:13 – 32:26•Stuart Graham

And I think that might have been some of the confusion when this was being discussed with the Planning Commission is that this is, it's not a rezoning notice, it's a preliminary plat notice.

35:38•Stuart Graham

We only have, I mean, there are choices. That was already in the.

36:32•Stuart Graham

Well, we're accepting the planning statement Commission's recommendation would change us. This was all part of the recommendation. Correct.

37:38 – 37:52•Stuart Graham

But this is all part of the planning commission's recommendation. So why can't we just consider it all as part of the planning commission's recommendation and still make changes to whatever the recommendation is, if we so choose.

38:09•Stuart Graham

So if we're agreeing with it, then fine. If we're not agreeing with it, then we're making a change.

38:17•Stuart Graham

Or making a change that's not currently included in the draft. So we're making... Correct. If it's in the draft or what's in their recommendation, you can't do anything else.

39:19•Steve Harper

Why are we limiting the days of farm stands?

39:37 – 39:52•Steve Harper

I don't see why there should be a limit on them. If somebody's got a greenhouse and they open year-round, I just don't know. I think that's an unenforceable regulation.

39:52•Stuart Graham

My guess is the Department of Agriculture is going to be like, they shall.

39:59•Steve Harper

We've dealt with them, and this farmer has a right to farm, and I just think that's an unnecessary regulation.

41:22•Steve Harper

That will be one of my first recommendations when we have our First Amendment would be to delete that section.

44:38 – 46:03•Stuart Graham

I have a comment or a a thought and I don't know if it belongs in this discussion or we can talk about it after the motion, but we've talked about a lot of text amendments. So I would really like to see before we do final reading for this, what those text amendments that we have on a list so that we can agree that, okay, like everybody agrees that, hey, here's the ones that we're going after. And I'll take it a step further in the sense that, There's going to be some of them that are going to be relatively easy to do, and there's going to be some that are not going to be easy to do, and they'r

49:25 – 49:41•Stuart Graham

I think one of those is really what you would consider a rural business, and one is a true neighborhood business. To me, those are two different situations. Rural business, all day long, neighborhood transitioning... It's not so much.

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